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Two Muslim 13-year-olds are jailed for raping girl, 12, because she was Jewish - hurling anti-Semitic insults and death threats throughout attack
Two Muslim teenagers, both 13, have been jailed for the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl, where they uttered 'death threats' and 'anti-Semitic remarks'.
During a trial at a juvenile court in Nanterre, which took place behind closed doors, heard how the three boys approached the young girl near a park in northwest Paris on June 15, 2024.
The 12-year-old investigators she was dragged into an abandoned building in La Défense, the financial district in Courbevoie, Paris where the suspects beat and 'forced' her to have sex 'while uttering death threats and anti-Semitic remarks'.
She said the boys had called her a 'dirty Jew' and asked her questions about 'her Jewish religion' and Israel.
The rape was filmed by one boy, and another threatened to kill the girl if she reported the ordeal to authorities, police sources said.
Two boys were then indicted for 'gang rape, death threats, and insults and violence of an anti-Semitic nature', and have since been sentenced to nine and seven years behind bars.
The presiding judge justified the harsh sentence against the two boys as being due to their 'worrying' personalities, 'the immense social disturbance' they caused to society, and the crime being committed on religious grounds.
She undoubtedly 'would not have been raped if she had not been Jewish', the judge said.
A third boy, who was also aged 12 at the time, was found guilty of being complicit in the crime but not sentenced to time behind bars due to the minimum age of criminal liability in France being 13.
The court ordered that he be placed in the foster system and followed by professionals for five years.
According to Bild, he had filmed the rape and sent it to the 12-year-old's boyfriend alongside the message: 'Look at your girlfriend.'
According to Le Parisien, anti-Semitic images and messages were also found on the victim's phone by investigators.
The attack shocked the Jewish community in France and was unanimously condemned by politicians.
At the time, President Emmanuel Macron had denounced the 'scourge' of antisemitism.
Several demonstrations in support of the victim were held in Paris and in Courbevoie as hundreds took to the streets to protest.
Reported antisemitic acts in France surged from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, before dipping slightly to 1,570 last year, according to the interior ministry.
Jewish groups have said that the number of such attacks rose sharply following the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, which was followed by Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip and aid blockade.
